Scrum Master/Agile consultant Resume

SUMMARY:

Proven success in Agile and Lean software development delivery as Agile Coach and Scrum Master.
Certified Scrum Master that specializes in Agile coaching and teaching/training to empower/encourage teams to accomplish amazing things.
A fluent communicator with business as well as technical engineers and is passionate about continuous improvement and servant leadership.
Supported cross functional scrum teams in delivering a complete platform for travel agency search, reservation, booking and back office integration on initial and subsequent releases for Confidential
Supported two Scrum teams in delivering new and improved Chase banking web site for the initial release, hitting all milestones along the way and coming in on time and under budget.
Supported two scrum teams in delivering a new product for client, which brought in over $8M in investments in the first 6 weeks after first deployment to public.
Supported teams and management with Agile training programs and mentoring to increase their knowledge and adoption of Scrum and Agile practices.

WORK EXPERIENCE:

Scrum Master/Agile consultant

Confidential

Responsibilities:

Scrum Master/Agile Coach for five teams creating new website for travel agents.
The teams were able to create and support, a system using Confidential (microservices) that unified 3 acquired travel applications into one system.
The team not only met the company’s desired date for initial delivery but used continuous delivery to satisfy the functionality of the full system into production on time.
As Release Manager, coordinated sprint releases for all teams into production and was able to significantly reduce the time needed for releases.

Scrum Master

Confidential

Responsibilities:

FTE as Scrum Master for Chase. Scrum Master/Agile Coach for two teams on a re - write of the Chase online banking website.
Ensures team effectiveness and delivery of value/quality software, by removing impediments for the teams.
Provided Agile training and one on one coaching/mentoring, which significantly reduced their training costs and helped them to adopt Agile scrum methodology.
Provided Program/Project management support (agile metric reporting) for Management/Executives.

Agile Coach, Scrum Master

Confidential, Seattle, WA

Responsibilities:

Facilitated and coached three cross-functional scrum teams in software development for Enterprise investment website.
The teams moved themselves to high performing with improved velocity and commitment reliability.
Coaching of team members continuously improved team happiness and opened up creativity/innovation.
Conducted company’s Agile Community of Practice and assisted company in adopting Agile.
Facilitated Scrum stand-ups, backlog maturation & poker pointing workshops, planning meetings, sprint reviews and retrospectives.

Scrum Master and Management Consultant

Confidential, Seattle, WA

Responsibilities:

Lead Dev/Test teams for two groups. Initiated Kanban process for maintenance and operations team.
Improved the velocity of Enhancements team by employing various methods including XP pairing, story decomposition and milestone management.
Facilitated Scrum stand-ups, sprint planning meetings, sprint review/retrospectives and reporting to stakeholders.
Provided Consulting service with client to adopt scrum Agile methodology.
Helped them to turn a heavily Regulated bio-tech firm from a strong waterfall process into Agile(scrum).
This drastically reduced the time it takes to drive software changes through to production.

Scrum Master/Program Manager

Confidential, Seattle, WA

Responsibilities:

Led Dev/Test teams for several Confidential Service teams including SMS, MMS, Reporting/Data Warehouse and Billing.
Facilitate Scrum stand-ups, sprint planning meetings, sprint review, review/demos and retrospectives.

Project Manager/Scrum Maste

Confidential, Seattle, WA

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Lead QA Engineer/QA Manager

Confidential, Seattle, WA

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